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Journal Article
Economic crisis, austerity and unmet healthcare needs: the case of Greece
2016
Overview
Background
The programme for fiscal consolidation in Greece has led to income decrease and several changes in health policy. In this context, this study aims to assess how economic crisis affected unmet healthcare needs in Greece.
Methods
Time series analysis was performed for the years 2004 through 2011 using the EU-SILC database. The dependent variable was the percentage of people who had medical needs but did not use healthcare services. Median income, unemployment and time period were used as independent variables. We also compared self-reported unmet healthcare needs drawn from a national survey conducted in pre-crisis 2006 with a similar survey from 2011 (after the onset of the crisis). A common questionnaire was used in both years to assess unmet healthcare needs, including year of survey, gender, age, health status, chronic disease, educational level, income, employment, health insurance status, and prefecture. The outcome of interest was unmet healthcare needs due to financial reasons. Ordinary least squares, as well as logistic regression analysis were conducted to analyze the results.
Results
Unmet healthcare needs increased after the enactment of austerity measures, while the year of participation in the survey was significantly associated with unmet healthcare needs. Income, educational level, employment status, and having insurance, private or public, were also significant determinants of unmet healthcare needs due to financial reasons.
Conclusions
The adverse economic environment has significantly affected unmet health needs. Therefore health policy actions and social policy measures are essential in order to mitigate the negative impact on access to healthcare services and health status.
Publisher
BioMed Central,BioMed Central Ltd,Springer Nature B.V
Subject
/ Chronic Disease - epidemiology
/ Economic Recession - statistics & numerical data
/ Employment - statistics & numerical data
/ Female
/ Funding
/ GDP
/ Greece
/ Health Services - statistics & numerical data
/ Health Services Accessibility - economics
/ Health Services Accessibility - statistics & numerical data
/ Health Services Needs and Demand
/ Humans
/ Income - statistics & numerical data
/ Kurtosis
/ Male
/ Medicine
/ Skewness
/ Studies
/ Trends
